Sarah Bryce

Sarah Jennifer Bryce (born 8 January 2000) is a Scottish cricketer who plays for the national cricket team as a wicket-keeper-batter. At the domestic level, she plays for the Watsonian cricket club, for English teams The Blaze (formerly known as Lightning) and Kent, and for Welsh Fire.

Previously, she has taken the field for English teams Nottinghamshire and Oval Invincibles.

Bryce is best known as a batter who has represented Scotland at cricket since she was fifteen years old. However, she is also an accomplished wicket keeper. Her older sister, Kathryn, similarly plays international cricket for Scotland.

Early life, family and education Bryce was born in Edinburgh into a cricket-mad family. She and her sister developed an enthusiasm for all sports at an early age.

The Bryce sisters also played girls' cricket at their school, George Watson's College. At that time, Edinburgh had no other girls' school teams, and so the GWC girls' 1st XI team played against many University teams, made up of similarly inexperienced players.

In 2015 and 2016, the GWC girls' 1st XI team, with the sisters as members, won the senior-level Women's Scottish Cup tournament; Bryce co-captained the team in the latter year.

Bryce also played for the GWC 1st XI hockey team. However:

On the other hand, as Bryce put it herself in an interview published in September 2020, "... it was definitely mixed emotions at the end of the tournament as we’d been one win away from going to the World Cup so that was disappointing." The other two competing teams were Germany and the Netherlands. with Bryce finishing sixth (and also third for Scotland) on the aggregate run scorers table. Bryce also featured prominently in Scotland's victory in its second match against the Netherlands; in a super over thriller, she and her sister combined to rack up an unbroken match-winning super over partnership.

The Netherlands ultimately won the qualifier by recording a better net run rate, but Scotland, as the host of the next qualifying stage of the 2022 Women's Cricket World Cup, also qualified for that stage. Bryce later told Female Cricket:

"It was a disappointing tournament for us on the whole – we didn’t achieve what we set out to do and we didn’t play our best cricket. I think we were able to learn quite a lot about ourselves though."

After an initial loss to Thailand in the quadrangular's opening round of fixtures, Bryce led Scotland to four consecutive wins, including Scotland's first defeat of Ireland since 2011, and a victory against Thailand that ended that team's record-breaking 17 WT20I wins in a row.

Bryce later described the defeat of Ireland as her 'favourite match'. "It was only the second win against Ireland in our history, and the first time for all but one in our squad," she told Cricket Scotland in 2020. The following day, she made 41 in 19 balls in leading her team to another win, against the Netherlands.

In late August/early September 2019, the Scotland captaincy reverted to Bryce's sister, but Bryce was selected in Scotland's squad, for the 2019 ICC Women's World Twenty20 Qualifier. Bryce was the third highest run-scorer in that tournament, with 121 runs in five matches. She was also twice awarded Player of the Match, the first time for top scoring with 37* in 30 balls in a play-off semi-final against Namibia, and secondly for making 65 in 48 balls and completing four stumpings in Scotland's defeat of the Netherlands in the playoff for fifth place.

When the ICC Women's T20I Rankings were next updated on 10 September 2019, Bryce jumped five positions to no. 14 in the batters rankings, with a career-high rating of 605 points. had achieved an average of just under 40 at over a run a ball,

In October 2019, Bryce was selected in the Women's Global Development Squad, ahead of a six-match series in Australia. The COVID-19 pandemic then intervened, and the Scotland team was left facing an uncertain future after several years of progress and rebuilding.

In November 2020, Bryce and her sister were both nominated for the ICC Women's Associate Cricketer of the Decade award. At the end of the following month, the ICC announced that her sister had won the award.

2021–present In April 2021, Bryce and her sister were members of an England academy team that played two pre-season T20s. The following month, they told ESPNcricinfo that it would be an agonising decision if they were asked to be part of England's national set-up. Bryce also bagged two stumpings and a catch in the third match, but Scotland ended up losing the series 1–3.

Bryce then played for Scotland in the 2021 ICC Women's T20 World Cup Europe Qualifier, which was originally scheduled to take place in Scotland, but later moved to the La Manga Club, Spain, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and held in August 2021. Scotland won all four of its matches, and therefore qualified for the 2022 ICC Women's T20 World Cup Qualifier. Bryce's high point in the tournament was in her team's opening contest, against the Netherlands, in which she was Player of the Match for scoring 46 in 36 balls to guide Scotland to a six wicket victory. She also top scored in Scotland's 10 wicket win over Germany.

In January 2022, Bryce was part of Scotland's team in the five-team 2022 Commonwealth Games Cricket Qualifier tournament in Malaysia, and was the team's second highest run scorer, after her sister. Scotland won the first two of its four matches, lost the other two, and eventually finished third in a tournament in which only the first placed team qualified. Bryce's best performance in the qualifier was her top score of 29 for her team in its final-match loss to Bangladesh; earlier, she had scored a less important 30 runs in the team's first-up victory over Malaysia, in which her sister had been Player of the Match.

Bryce then stood in as captain for Scotland's next two matches, during a home bilateral series against Ireland in September 2022, as her sister was absent. Ireland won both matches; a third contest had to be abandoned due to rain.

Bryce's next appearances for Scotland were at the 2022 ICC Women's T20 World Cup Qualifier in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. She was also awarded Player of the Match for scoring 45 in 32 balls in her team's victory over the United States, and top scored for the team with 49 in its loss to Ireland. Scotland finished the qualifier in sixth place.

In September 2024 she was named in the Scotland squad for the 2024 ICC Women's T20 World Cup.

Bryce was part of the Scotland squad for the 2025 Women's Cricket World Cup Qualifier in Pakistan in April 2025.

FairBreak career Bryce has played for the Spirit team in two FairBreak Invitational T20 competitions.

During the inaugural Invitational, held in Dubai in May 2022, she participated in all seven of Spirit's matches, made an aggregate of 145 runs at 20.71 with a top score of 39, took two catches and achieved four stumpings. While in quarantine ahead of the 2022 Commonwealth Games Cricket Qualifier in Malaysia, she passed the time by practising her putting. Women's Twenty20 Cup South East Group champion: 2021

Individual Kent Women Player of the Year: 2020 Kent Batter of the Year: 2020 Kent Women's Twenty20 Cup Player of the Tournament: 2021